Buoyant Brendan Rodgers hailed his Celtic heroes after their thrilling 2-1 win against RB Leipzig as his team breathed new life into their Europa League campaign.

That victory draws the Hoops level with the Bundesliga big-spenders on six points in Group B to set up a fight to the finish to qualify alongside runaway leaders Red Bull Salzburg.

Goals from Kieran Tierney and Odsonne Edouard earned all three points as Rodgers was left beaming with his side's display which oozed aggression and quality.

The Frenchman found the winner 14 seconds after the restart as Leipzig were still celebrating Jean-Kevin Augustin's equaliser.

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Some teams would have been left sickened by that body blow but the Celtic boss believed his players had the steely determination to find a famous winner.

Rodgers said: "We spoke about that before the game, to show yourself as top players you have to respond to things going negatively in the game.

"I believe the players are very good players and sometimes when it's gone against us we've maybe not been as aggressive. But that's the mark of really good players, when it goes against you in a game, if you have that fight in you and you have that spirit in you then you have the quality to go and hurt the opportunity to hurt the opposition and we did that right from the kick-off.

"I think it's a proper win against an outstanding European team sitting fourth in the Bundesliga, in a top, top European league.

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"Some of our football was fantastic and we kept fighting right until the very end and it was a brilliant win for us."

Celtic's fearsome record at Parkhead has waned in recent times but Rodgers believes the special atmosphere, aided by the debut of the disco lights, played a significant part in the stirring victory.

He added: "People come here not knowing what a European night is like here playing at Celtic Park and I think that's an incredible demonstration of it.

"They really helped the team tonight and the players were absolutely brilliant. We deserved to win the game, the amount of effort we put into the game, the fight we had when we were under periods of pressure, we stood up to that."

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Rodgers also detailed how his side emerged victorious on the night as his side combated the diamond formation preferred by Ralf Rangnick which caused so much problems in the first leg.

The likes of Ryan Christie and Tom Rogic were able to wreak havoc breaking the lines as the Bundesliga side were handed some of their own medicine.

He added: "We coped well with the pressure as they pressed the ball really well but we got out of the pressure well and took it out to the sides.

"They played a diamond which can be a really complicated system to play against but we worked our way through it and got it out to the sides and we created some good chances to maybe score another couple of goals."